The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-01-07

An attempt was made recently to de-
strcy By explosives enc OF the churches OF
LYONS, France. A bombshell was placed
under the church porch and fuse lighted.
A policeman passing by noticed the burning
fuse and put out the fire before it could
reach the bomb.
The general election for the province OF
Ontario took place on the 18th, resulting In
the return to power Of the Liberal party by
increased majorities. With seven constitu-
encies to hear from. four of which would
probably return Liberal members. the vote
stood: Liberals, So; Conservatives, ~;
Labor, 1. In the last House the Liberals
had majority of II.
A DUEL was fought in the City of Mexico
recently between Prince Augustin Iturbide
and Senior Carcedo. both of whom are mem
bers of the Jockey Club. The weapons used
were swords. The Prince wounded his
antagonist in the shoulder, but not danger
ously.
WHOLESALE expulsion of Jews in Poland
has been ordered because they arc unable
to pay for certificates as merchants OF the
| first class.
THE French officer Letellier, arrested at
Carlsruhe, Germany. on suspicion, has been
liberated.
IT is announced that the death has 90
| Cured in her matched cottage, near Ayr
Scotland. of Isabella Burns. the niece OF
the poet and his last near relative. She
had just completed her eightieth year. For
| MANY wears she has been well known to
| literary persons of all countries, and had
every summer received visitors from the
admirers of her uncle.
ACCORDING to advices from Natal there
| is an alarming increase in that colony OF
outrages upon European women by natives
| In many instances the guardians Of jails
have experienced great difficulty in pre-
| venting the lynching of the criminals. and
there is a general popular demand for pub
lie 1ogging, branding and hanging of the
offenders.
RouMANIA will hold aloof from the threat
ened European war.
JOSEPH CHANBEHLAIN. the English Radi
cal Unionist, is reported in favCr of coali
| ton ministry.
REPORTS of increased RUSSIAN ornaments
are continually being received in Vienna
from various sOurses. The latest intelli
gence of this kind to the effect that 10000
Russian troops have been ordered to mass
| in Kleff and that the occupants of lO.ON
houses have received the official notiiica
! ton that the soldiers will soon be billeted
with them.
THE Worth German Gazette considers Gen
eral Boulanger's consent to reduction OF
| the supplementary credit for the French
| military department for the present tinan
cial year as intended to strengthen the pc
sltlon of the opponents of an increase of the
| German army.
LORD COLIN CAMPBELL has made applica
| ton to have his recent suit for divorce re-
opened on the old testimony.
AT the Sligo Qreland) assizes all the
Catholic jurors in the panel were rejected
for the trial of the moonlighters.
LORD IDDEsLEIGH, the British Minister OF
Foreign Affairs, received the Bulgarian dele
cation unofficially on the 2.th.
IT is reported that Munich, Germany, is
about to be proclaimed in a state of siege.
NEAR Toronto is being constructed the
first steel steamer ever built in Canada
The engines, however, are being made in
Scotland.
FIVE persons were killed and a number
of firemen were injured recently at fire
which destroyed a large block of buildings
| in Lisbon, Portugal.
THE Rdil,cdy Age says: During the last
year 500 miles of new main line of rail
States Kansas leads the country with the
| surprising amount of 1.5aO miles. The pres
ent indications are that the year 1887 will
show even greater activity.
A THREE per cent. dividend on the capital
stock of the Canadian Pacific railroad will
be payable in London on February IL, 1887
| IT is estimated that 200 persons lost Their
lives in Southern Germany during the great
snowstorm that prevailed in Europe the
latter part of December.
MICHAEL DAvITT was united in marriage
| to Miss Mamie Yore, at Oakland, Cal, on
| the 30th
PRIVATE advices from London report the
! final conversion of the Mexican debt into
new consolidated bonds.
MILE MARIE DE MACMAHoN. daughter OF
Marshal and ex-Presidcnt MacMahon, was
| married at Paris recently to Prince Helvan
Prince Murat was present at the ceremony
| as representative of eX-Empress Eugene
Mr.. GLADSTONE, replying to letter criti
cising John Bright's action on the Irish
question, SAYS: There is only one reason
why remain silent. After my former re
lations with that distinguished man and the
kind and loyal aid he SO often gave me, dc
not mean. if l can avoid it, towrfte or speak
| one word that could possibly give him
pain.''
FIRE broke out in the store cabin of the
Inman steamer, City of Chester, at Liver
pool recently. 1t was reported that much
damage was done.
THE LATEST.
IT was recently reported at Vienna that
1900 Jews have been expelled from the
government at Kief, Russia.
! Two hundred and twenty five natives at
Madras lost their lives by the burning Of q
reserved enclosure at the Peoples Park
lately. No Europeans were killed.
THE fifteen-year-old daughter of Mr..
Barley Knee, while coming down stairs
with a coal oil lamp in her hand, fell, the
lamp exploding. Her clothing was burned
OF and der body almost burned to q crisp.
The girl died after suffering three hours.
| TELEGRAMs from Buenos Ayres announced
thirty-four new cases of cholera andtwenty
deaths on the 1st.
| HoRATIo POTTER, for thirty-two years
Bishop Of the Protestant Episcopal diocese
of New York, died at his home on the I'd.
His death was somewhat unexpected to HE
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